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Updated: May 6, 2025

Touching the popularity of plays, it is related that in the year 1833, when two actors called Bandô Shuka and Segawa Rokô, both famous players of women's parts, died at the same time, the people of Yedo mourned to heaven and to earth; and if a million riyos could have brought back their lives, the money would have been forthcoming.

Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale - Tales of Old Japan